tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post6119107218894882214..comments2019-01-11T13:21:27.189+01:00Comments on EL ETOS UT: Syria occupation, invasion, looting : Pentagon warns Syria’s Assad against attacking Kurdish-led forcesCOFFEE ARThttps://plus.google.com/111683365675203687716noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post-21875548358123388282018-06-01T07:08:31.285+02:002018-06-01T07:08:31.285+02:00US troops are not leaving Syria and any attempt to...US troops are not leaving Syria and any attempt to remove them by force will be met with an armed response, a top Pentagon official said, reacting to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s RT interview.<br />“Any interested party in Syria should understand that attacking US forces or our coalition partners will be a bad policy,” Director of Joint Staff Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said at the Pentagon press briefing on Thursday.<br /><br />Over 2,000 US troops in Syria are embedded with the SDF in the northeast as well as in the enclave of At-Tanf in the south, along the Jordanian border. McKenzie said the US troops and their local militia allies were staying in Tanf, quashing rumors of their impending withdrawal.<br /><br />“We are there. Nothing has changed,” he said. “The maintenance of that deconfliction zone is important and we would view very gravely any actions that tended to change that.”<br /> RTEL Etoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642noreply@blogger.com